“Journalistes, collabos, journalistes, collabos,” they chant in front of television, radio and newspaper headquarters. Journalists are regarded as part of the elite, and as “collaborators” of the Macron administration.

…The future of Europe, as well as the future of France, is at stake in Macron’s struggle quell the gilets jaunes.

34 thoughts on “Liberté, Égalité, Hyperbole”

Lara Marlowe and her fellow ‘journalist’s will be more than happy to go to bat for Macron and his globalist cronies.
A blind eye will be turned to any violent crackdown’. Journalists have a track record in supporting and indeed evangelising for fascism.
The fact is, Macron doesn’t realty have a mandate, he never did, such was the ridiculous behaviour of his opponents in the last election and the refusal by so many on the left to vote at all.
You reap what you sow.

“Journalistes, collabos, journalistes, collabos,” they chant in front of television, radio and newspaper headquarters. Journalists are regarded as part of the elite, and as “collaborators” of the Macron Irish Times Property Page and FG Spin Unit administration.”

How could they possibly draw the conclusion that Irish Times journalists are not likeable or trustable?

this is the third time today alone, i’ve read journalists hammering home the lie that the yellow vest protesters are far right, and to demonise them and generally deter any revolt spreading. Well done, Lara, you’ve done your masters bidding, now step to the side along with all the other ‘no nuts’ journalists we can all see thru.

A lot of my friends are fully behind the yellow best movement and they are definitely not far right, if anything calling for a system that stops catering to the elite, calling for a France to become truly socialist again and not just in lip service

Interesting, thanks Janet. My Toulouse friends had recently moved back a month ago – from a country with a lot more violence on the streets – and while not taking sides, they just felt that the once ‘safe and civilised Europe’ is now a myth, and demonstrative violent protest will intensify in France and will spread geographically like the Wall St. movement.

it’s such an unashamed attempt to smear protestors by labelling them to be party to “Gratuitous violence, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and homophobia” with literally NO citations/examples given. And she says they don’t trust the mainstream media, like we’re all meant to be thinkin “oh my god! they dont trust, the highly reputable and never one sided, mainstream media?” .. like we have no experience of how they carry on here. If she wanted to turn us against what yellow vests are doing, she shouldnt have presumed we all believe the media and hold them in as high regard as she’d like.

Journalists from some traditional media have been attacked by some Dílsí Buí who say that the traditional media is owned by an elite who protect their own interests at the expense of society. Does that sentiment ring any bells here….

For media watchers, there’s an interesting new French media outlet, Brut News Network, it’s a completely digital outfit and has been supportive of the Gilets.

+1 Janet.
I’m in the Bordeaux region. The great majority of those I know who are involved in, and supportive of, the gilet jaune movement are anything but far right. Though I have observed, as we head towards our 10th Saturday of protests, that the far right are definitely in evidence.
All that being said, things do seem, in places, to be getting more violent. And the media, including well-known left-leaning editions, are being increasingly targeted. It is also true that the 24-hour news chains, such as BFM, seem to focus much more on the negative, violent aspects of the protests than the vast, peaceful majority.
There is also a huge amount of fake social media/Facebook posts circulating, which only serve to enflame an already tense situation

You’ll be not expecting instant posts on this site. If the underlying platform went any slower at times, it would be going backwards. Probably trying to screw BroadSheet for more money. Not conspiratorial, just personal experience.

The pure joy in seeing an IT journalist outraged by the ever growing discontent of the masses is only surpassed by reading the even more outraged outpourings of its comment section. Great stuff …and 1 little correction , Macron , Merkel , The EU,, Leo Fg, FF, Junker, Tusk and the Irish Times are not “the centre” …They are very much free marketeer pro big business Tories in the Thatcher mould …so they are the “right”

MSM Journalists might earn some respect if they could even bring themselves to admit that

“On the 8th Saturday, January 5, a squad of plexiglass-protected police were violently attacking Gilets Jaunes on a bridge over the Seine when a big guy lost his temper, emerged from the crowd and went on the attack. With his fists, he beat down one policeman and caused the others to retreat. This amazing scene was filmed. You could see Yellow Vests trying to hold him back, but Rambo was unstoppable.

It turned out that this was Christophe Dettinger, a French Rom, former light heavyweight boxing champion of France. His nickname is “the Gypsy of Massy”. He got away from the scene, but made a video before turning himself in. “I reacted badly”, he said, when he saw police attacking women and other defenseless people. He urged the movement to go ahead peacefully.

Dettinger faces seven years in prison. Within a day, his defense fund had gathered 116,433 euros. The government shut it down – on what legal pretext I don’t know. Now a petition circulates on his behalf.”

Lara Marlow (who I usually like her articles and analysis) is only taking one small aspect of the whole gilet jaune story and it represents well the reason why some in this movement are taking on the media saying that they are biased (and I am not going to go down the path that Mr Macron’s support during the last presidential election was supported financially by every single major news groups in France). Unfortunately, 4 guys on a roundabout demonstrating peacefully since Novembre does not sell papers! Then, social media allows all sorts of rubbish to be spread around and mount people against each other. This movement is very representative of what is, I believe, a time bomb every where: The ones living in cities are dictating to the ones living in the country side what they should do despite the fact that their needs are completely different. All the western policies (and in the developing world) are to concentrate jobs, public services, health services and activities in and around cities. Therefor, money is in the cities and the ones who cannot afford to live there anymore end expelled to the country with fewer jobs, having to travel long distance to go to work, school, courts and hospitals, less services for the elderly and fewer health and public services. Examples are numerous and not only in France, the vote on Brexit, the election of D.Trump, the housing crisis and internet access or water supply sham in Ireland and now the gilets jaunes in France, mass consumerism, pollution and complete disconnection from nature all over the World. The gap between the two is becoming way too big all over the “developed world” and I believe is the root cause of popularism! Until this kind of thinking which only focus on cities needs and forgetting where the food people eat, the energy that supply them and the air and water they need to live comes from and that a lot of people are still working and living down the country on which they rely on to be able to survive or indulge in cities, nothing will change until this issu is seriously dealt with. Open your eyes because it is becoming scary!